What was your first audio system....how far have you come?

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My first system consisted of:

Kenwood KR-4070 40W stereo receiver

Pr Large "Bullnose" Advents w/fried egg tweeters

RT3388 Computer -controlled audio-sensing cassette deck.

The Kenwood, although not very powerful for an acoustic suspension speaker, sounded very good with the Advents.

The Advents came with original tweeters, but both were replaced when one had blown, with the fried-egg versions The woofers had foam surrounds, so eventually went bad. I gave them to a friend long before the woofer foam rotted.

The Sharp was a computer-controlled deck whose monitor head sensed the blank tape between songs, would stop and then play. You could program itswitch number of songs you asked it to skip. Very good system for the money. Allowing you to skip as few, or many songs as you like. I think I paid $700 for the set.

I forgot to mention my current system consists of:
Emotiva UMC-1
Emotiva XPA-5
Yamaha M-65
Oppo 93
Dishnetwork Vip722
Monster 3500MKII
Legacy Focus Mains
Legacy Silver Screen Center
T&A P-30 rear surrounds
Klipsch RS-3 side surrounds
Audioquest GR8 speaker cables
Audioquest Coral interconnects
Sony KDL52XBR6 LCD HDTV
HDMI 1.4a cables
Ashley/Bello entertainment center, TV stand
Paradigm Premier J Series speaker stands